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well. Moreover, the carp is a very prolific spawner, and the fry from 
this spawn furnishes an immense quantity of food for our game fishes. 
From our rivers and lakes thousands of tons of this fish are taken 
annually and put upon the market at such a low price as to make it 
possible for people to have a fish dinner who cannot afford to pay the 
price asked for what are known as our better varieties of fish. Further- 
more, the taking of these fish from our waters and sending them to 
market gives employment to a-great many people. 
The German Carp. 
The commission, therefore, feels in duty bound to lend encourage- 
ment to the carp industry, while at the same time it promotes the game 
fish interests. 
The carp is so hardy and so prolific that it has not been found 
necessary to do anything more in the way of propagating this fish than 
to protect its spawning grounds and rescue fry from low ground from 
which the water has receded. Fry so rescued from pools have been put 
into near lakes and streams, and distributed at such points where a 
scarcity prevails. 
THE BUFFALO. 
Since the introduction of carp into our waters the supply of buffalo 
has steadily increased. The buffalo is a hardy fish, similar in appear- 
ance to the carp with similar habits. He looks to be a more rugged 
fish. Still in the struggle for existence in the same waters, the carp 
more than holds its own. 
While the buffalo is very much the same type of fish as the carp, 
his commercial value is a little greater. Generally the buffalo is regarded 
as the better edible fish. 
Because this is so, and for the further reason that the buffalo is not 
able to hold his own in our waters with the carp, the commission has 
deemed it wise to give this fish the artificial aid the Havana hatchery 
affords. This spring, buffalo were hatched at this hatchery, and the fry 
